Production of my front cover Urban Jungle

Day One December 1 The first aspect of my magazine was my background, this was an image of bricks that took, I had to do this as the background of my model didn’t have enough space for my mast head, I feel the background has a urban feel so I didn’t add and effects.

Day One I then cut out my model from her original picture using the magic wand. I felt my model didn’t stand out and looked plan so I increased the temperature. This helped my model to be the main focus.

I then moved onto my mast head, using dafont I created my title, I then upload it to Photoshop. I wanted the pattern from my models clothes to be in the mast head, I did this my copying and then cutting out part of the pattern. I then placed the pattern under the masthead. The by using the magic wand I cut out the inside of the words allowing the pattern to be seen.

Day 2 December 4

On the next day of creating my magazine I started adding text. Throughout my magazine I will be using the same font for my sub-lines, looking at professional magazines they use the same font so I will be doing the same. I decided to keep my colour pattern by using the colours from my models, helping to keep my magazine a high quality.

To help the text to stand out I added boxes using the shape tool, and decreased the opacity to 45% for all boxes. The artist mentioned on my magazine are famous AfroBeat singers, this helps my audience what genre my magazine is.

My main cover line is in a different font to the rest of the text on my magazine. I did this to help the words stand out and grab the consumers attention. The word’ exclusive’ is behind the model, however her name is on top of her, many music magazines do this, it has a edgy look to the magazine, the look, looks well planned.

I also added a cover-line on top so it could a strip of writing, as I don’t want to much text all over the cover. When creating my magazine I only used to types of fonts.

Day 3 December 9 I added the basics of my magazine; barcode, date line, price.

Because of the development of the internet, I decided to interpret this into my magazine. Twitter has many fans and users so my magazine has a twitter site, where my consumers can see tweets of shows, competitions. There is examples of this on my magazine. Throughout my magazine I used a colour pattern, I used the colours from my models clothing, this helped my magazine to look professional.

Lastly I used grids and rulers to help line my text. It helped to structure my magazine